The Irish standard., 1887-10-01
FRESH FASHION NOTES.

Strings again appear on bonnets.
The newest red shade is old rose.
Ribbons are much used for dress
decorations.
We are to have another season Of
checkered woods.
Gobelin blue is the fashionable
cerulean tint this fall.
The Parisians are wild over vies.a
rose (old rose) color.
Dots, big and little, appear on some
of the new fall fabrics.
Bengalines come in soft, dull finish,
with larger rops, this season.
All shades of yellow are used to
brighten the effect of dark fabrics.
Jackets have close coat-sleeves,
with buttons and buttonholes at the
wrist.
New hats in felt and beaver or hat
ter's plush come in all the new dark
and light colors.
Lace scarf strings appear on some
of the imported French bonnets of
velvet and plush.
Ashes of roses is revived among the
new gray tints, and takes the name Of
Malmaison gray.
There are many shades of Gobelin
blue, ranging from Sevres to gray
blues of various gradations.
Cocks plumes, much curled, are
seen in quantities on early importa-
tions of hats and bonnets.
Checks, bars, herring bone and
chevron weaves mark the bulk of the
woolen importations this fall.
The hideous fashion of r0sse terre
skirts scraping the street pavements in
the back threatens to return.
The new felt bonnets are so soft that
the fabric is made up in plaits over a
frame, just like plush or velvet.
Zigzag stripes, bars and checks in
vanishing effects appear on the new
rough and woolly cloths for fall wear.
The favorite colors in straight, up
right feathers on round hats are old
rose, bronze green and almond shades.
Moire broche antique is a new silk
with broche effects in velvet and plush,
cut and uncut pile, watered grounds
of dull finish and long, bold wave
waterings.
Girdles of ropes, of beads, of passe-
menterie, and of seal and plush are to-
replace those of metal saddle girth and
leather that have been worn this sum-
mer.
Double-breasted, loose-front jackets
or coats are shown for rough-weather
wear. They are loose and comfort
able, but set in we'll to the figure in
the back.
A Gobelin gray dress, with pare
ments and accessories of heliotrope and
canary color and felt bonnet to match,
is much-admired Partisan toilet for
country wear.
New wooden black novelties have
bars, dots, corded, and plush and vel
vet effects on diagonal, rep, cashmere
woven, chevron, herring bone and di-
agonal grounds.
Straight, upright feathers, mostly
the wing and tail quilts of the domestic
fowl, are considered the most stylish
decoration for French and English
round hats.
Crinoline, long demi-trained frocks.
and all the discomfort and nastiness of
that style of dress is threatened by
French dressmakers, but deprecated by
English women.
The high novelty in silks is peau de
soi, (silk skin), a fine, close, satin
woven silk, dull and lusterless, ex-
quisitely soft and plant, with a good
body and firm texture.
The latest fancy in bonnets in Paris
are of soft, fine, light felt, with moder-
ately high crowns set up very straight,
and peaked brims of rather large size
projecting over the forehead.
The gradations in colors and the dar-
ing combinations of the same in mix
lures, stripes, bars, checks and broche
effects are the features in fall importa-
tions of wooden stuffs, silks and vel
vets.
Corsages are as long as ever, cut
shorter on the hips, with longer points
in front and narrower positions in the
back, narrower waistcoats and fuller
draperies and trimmings on the bodice.
Old tapestry colors in unending va
riety appearin all the new brooches and
figured goods, silks, velvets, pushes,
millinery stuffs and ribbons. whether
for bonnets or dress accessories.
New green shades that come in blue
tints take the name of Rhone, ocean
and serpent. Then there are lovely
shades of tapestry, Aubusson or foliage
green's, and dark ivy and hunters
greens.
All skirts are double, both skirts are
long and plain, the upper one slashed
on one or both sides, showing panels,
and the draping amounts to mere rip
Piles, effecting just enough OF looping
to show small part of the undersklrt.
Most of the wooden mixtures for the
incoming season are smooth finished,
but there is no lack of rough and
woolly surfaced, knotted, corded, tuft-
ed, bourette, velvet and plush effects,
.4I,..,..., =. 500. tho S1v0Olnn hiOh nov.